Thursday, 16 February 2012

CAPTCHAS and Let Go

Okay, what is up with the Captchas? I mean really, it was enough with one word and now they want us to type in two? Personally, I don't allow Captchas and my blogger spam filter catches everything. I might seriously consider letting go of some blogs that allow captchas--too much work. Am I ranting?

43 comments:

I completely agree. Since they changed it the other day, I've had to enter WV twice (or more) at least 75% of the time. They made it so much more difficult, and therefore, annoying. Thanks a lot, Google.

There is no reason for this. My blog gets 250 comments a week on average, and I NEVER have to delete spam.

I don't like Captachas much either, but I'm more receptive since my in-house computer guru, aka Hubby, taught me that there is an international project that uses them to help decipher difficult words in OCR of many of the documents being made available online. So when you get a word that is fuzzy or the letters are smudged, OCR couldn't decide what to do with it. It's now in the rotation for public input, and the most common perception will be accepted.

Normally (not always!) when there are two words in your Captcha, you really only need to get one right to move on.

You're completely not ranting. The old captchas weren't too bad, but now the way they have them, it's horrible! It took me five times to comment on someone's blog post the other day. I hate that. I want to comment on people's blogs, but I can't spend all day trying to figure out the stupid captchas to do so.

Cyndi, that's such an interesting tidbit. I didn't know. Why can't those researchers make it game and then make an app for that. I'm sure there are people out there that would love to try and guess WV for research.

I just encountered my first double-whammy right before coming here. I don't know why people still have these on their blogs. Totally unnecessary and these new ones are unbelievable. I think bloggers who use them will wonder why they're losing comments.

I'm not sure why on Earth some people still use it when we all mutually agreed not to use that Satan's device :) I'm also considering not commenting on the sites which molest their readers with that thing. It's impolite, rude and irritating!